Reid said, other criminal conduct occurs:  ”welfare fraud, tax evasion, massive corruption and strong-arm tactics to maintain what they think is the status quo.” 

http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/07/24/polygamy.hearing/index.html?eref=rss_latest

What happens is a man marries one wife, she’s his legal wife, then he marries ten other wives in the church, and all the other wives are, by law, single women, so they have all these children with him, and they all get welfare.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/04/10/earlyshow/main4005519.shtml

Many of the celestial wives register with the state as single mothers and draw welfare for their huge families.  In one decade Tom Green and his dependents received more than $647,000 in public assistance.

http://www.childrenshealthcare.org/polygamous.htm

American taxpayers have unwittingly helped finance a polygamist sect that is now the focus of a massive child abuse investigation in West Texas, with a business tied to the group receiving a nearly $1 million loan from the federal government and $1.2 million in military contracts.

http://lifewithoutfaith.com/index.php?/archives/59-The-American-Government-Funds-The-Polygamist-FLDS-Sect!.html

Arizona polygamist leaders are using public funds to support religious schools and line their own pockets. The state’s done nothing to stop them.

http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/2003-04-10/news/polygamy-in-arizona-the-wages-of-sin/